Corset



(Model.)

M. P. BRAY.

Corset..

Patented April 19,1881

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,373, dated April 19, 1881. Application filed December 20, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoREIs P. BRAY, of N ew Haven, in the county of New Haven and Sta-te of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in Figure 1, a side View of the hip-section; Fig. 2, transverse, and Fig. 3 longitudinal, sections.

This invention relates to au improvement in corsets, with special reference to the side or hip sections, the object being 'to re-enforce the vertical stays in that section at or near the waist-line, to prevent the breaking of the stays or bones at that point; and it consists in the.

construction hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the front and B the rear section, and C the hip-section. The hip-section is composed oi' the usual two thicknesses, a b, of fabric, and upon the outside a third thickness, D D, is applied over those portions where the stays or bones are to run, but less in length than the height of the corset. These overlays are stitched to the outer thickness, a, across the bottom, as seen by the line of stitches d in Figs. 1 and 3. This must be done before the two thicknesses a b are secured together'. Then vertical parallel lines of stitches 1, 2,3, 4, 5, &c., (more or less in number,) are run through the two thicknesses a b and through the third thickness, D, of fabric. These parallel lines of stitches form the pockets for the stays E between the two thicknesses a b, and which run the full height of the corset, and also form corresponding pockets between they overlay D and the outer thickness, c, for the re-enforcing bones F. The overlay D is considerably shorter than the height of the corset, running from the waist-line up and down, and the bones introduced therein are of correspondin glen gth, and serve as a re-enforce for the principal bones E throughout that portion Where the strain comes-that is, at about the waistline. The short bones are introduced int-o the pockets made by the overlap D at the top.

By this construction the additional stays add but little to the cost of the corset, because the single lines of stitches serve to form the pockets both in the body of the corset and for the re-enforce, and the bones or stays may be easily removed or replaced as occasion requires.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, in a corset, the combination of a fabric or one of the thicknesses of a corset having pockets on the opposite sides thereof containing stiffening-ribs, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I do not broadly claim an overlying or re-enforced stay for corsets, as such, I am aware, is not new; but

What I do claim is- A corset having the hip-section composed of two thicknesses of fabric, with an overlay of fabric upon the outside shorter than that section of the corset, pockets formed in both the body and theoverlay by single lines of stitches, with bones arranged in the pockets of the body, which run the full height, and shorter bones in the pockets ofthe overlay, as a re-enforce for the bones in the body, substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses:

L. D. ROGERS, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

